problem report about installation of OpenSSH

[Peter Stuge]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 07:15:53PM -0500, John Landstreet wrote:
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> However, when I try to compile with make, the make does not work, with the
> following message:
> _______________________________________________________________________
> /usr/local/src/openssh-2.3.0p1>make
> 
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -I. -I. -I/usr/local/ssl/include
> -DETCDIR=\"/usr/local/etc\" -DSSH_PROGRAM=\"/usr/local/bin/ssh\" -DSSH_ASKPASS_DEFAULT=\"/usr/local/libexec/ssh-askpass\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -c bsd-base64.c -o bsd-base64.o
> gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 6
> make: *** [bsd-base64.o] Error 1
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> I do not know what to try next. I have looked over the FAQ file for
> OpenSSH, as well as the README and the INSTALL files, and none of the
> comments seem to be relevant. I would be most grateful for any suggestions
> you could make about how to proceed from here. 

Fatal signals received by the compiler usually indicates that you're out of
memory.  Create a 64mb swapfile:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swapfile bs=1024k count=64
mkswap /tmp/swapfile
swapon /tmp/swapfile

and try to rerun make.
When you're done you can

swapoff /tmp/swapfile
rm /tmp/swapfile

to get rid of the 64mb file.

Good luck.

//Peter

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